Kung Fury is an over-the-top action comedy Short Film written and directed by David Sandberg and funded by Kickstarter. The movie features: arcade-robots, dinosaurs, Nazis, Vikings, Norse gods, mutants and a super kung-fu cop called Kung Fury, all wrapped up in an 80s style action packed adventure. The film was released for free on May 28, 2015 on YouTube and Steam.

During an unfortunate series of events, Kung Fury (a Kung Fu Cowboy Cop) loses nearly his entire precinct to the most dangerous kung fu master criminal of all time; Adolf Hitler, a.k.a Kung Führer. Because of being hit by lightning and being bitten by a cobra, which would have killed any normal human, Kung Fury has become a kung fu master and a threat to Hitler's power. Kung Fury decides to travel back in time, to Nazi Germany, in order to kill Hitler and end the Nazi empire once and for all.

For Russians, Dmitry “Goblin” Puchkov did a voiceover translation of the film, Gavrilov-style. It is available here and officially endorsed by the authors. Warning: features appropriate Russian swearing.

Arc Symbol: Parodied with the swastika, specifically when Kung Fury notices that the Arcade Machine had one. He says that he knew he saw the symbol before, and there's pseudo-buildup as he recalls the other times he saw it. Anyone with even the slightest knowledge of history would immediately recognize what it is.

The scene with the Nazi officers is spoken in a weird but hilarious mix between Swedish and a few poor attempts at German that are still basically Swedish words "German-ified". See also The Cameo.

One of Hitler's mooks bemoans the loss of his family jewels in surprisingly good German. ("Meine Familienjuwelen!")

The names of the Nazi officers are Reichstache and Lahmstache, which are mixed German and English and roughly mean "Empire 'stache" and "Lame 'stache". (And the first is obviously a pun with "Reichstag".)

Cruel and Unusual Death: After Triceracop incapacitates several Nazis by shooting them in the dick, one unlucky soldier tries to cover his groin with his hands. He's shot once in each shoulder, disabling his arms so his groin is exposed, is promptly shot in the dick, and to top it off gets eaten by a Tyrannosaurus Rex.

Diegetic Switch: Inverted at least three timesnote twice when people walk in front of the arcade and once during a sequence consisting of shots of Miami. In each of them, the quality of the Background Music decreases as a radio is shown, and it becomes Source Music.

Dirty Coward: Once his army's been wiped out, Hitler nervously tries to bargain for his life.

The Ditz: The man who's talking on a telephone which Hitler will steal happily announces he has done a blood test and the result is positive. (This is probably a reference to AIDS.) The woman he's talking to isn't happy to hear it.

Enforced Plug: When saying goodbye to the viking babes, Kung Fury also has enough time to advertise a brand new phone he just happened to have for them to use to call him...despite being on the edge of the lake in an age before electricity became a power source.

Establishing Series Moment: The second a guy flips a police car using his skateboard tells you pretty much everything you need to know about the movie's tone and pure insanity.

Every Car Is a Pinto: The cop car with the cop inside explodes in a big ball of fire in mid-air after being shot by the three street gangsters. Kung Fury later sends the killer of his partner through a fuel truck with explosive results.

Hitler's Time-Travel Exemption Act: Doesn't apply to Kung Fu Renegade Cops. Or maybe it does. Word of God says that the story is a Stable Time Loop — Kung Fury's attempt to kill Hitler accidentally sends Hitler forward in time to 1985, leading to the shooting incident that inspired Kung Fury to kill Hitler.

Hollywood Hacking: Hackerman specializes in this. "With the right computer algorithms, I can hack you back in time, just like a Time Machine." Hacking can also heal bullet wounds, revive the dead, and turn himself into a robot with a laser gun.

Horny Vikings: The Viking chicks that Kung Fury meets once he travels back in time have horned helmets.

Kung Fury shoots the rampaging arcade machine from atop his Lamborghini. While it's flying through the air at high speed. From a distance of probably several hundred yards. With a pistol. WITHOUT HITTING THE HOSTAGE.

Triceracop shoots exclusivelybetween the legs with great accuracy, and in case the target tries to cover himself there, he'll first disable his arms.

Implausible Boarding Skills: During the fight with a lot of Nazis, Kung Fury just pushes one on the ground and rides his body like a skateboard.

Informed Ability: Hitler is supposed to be the Kung Führer, the greatest martial artist of Nazi Germany. But he never actually fights using martial arts.

Medium Blending: After Kung Fury is gunned down by Kung Fuhrer's hidden minigun, the scene where he is in Heaven facing his Spirit Animal Cobra is shot like a vintage 80s cartoon.

Meteor Move: Kung Fury defeats the kung fu master by launching him high into the air, then knocking him down into a fuel truck.

Mook Chivalry: Exaggerated. Fury walks into a warehouse full of literally hundreds, if not thousands, of Nazis, who proceed to come at him in penny packets for him to stylishly and easily defeat while their fellows aimlessly mill about in the background. It's not clear whether it would have actually helped, mind.

Not So Different: Parodied. Kung Führer makes some not very convincing attempts at using this on Kung Fury.

Hitler: Killing people, I love it. (gestures at the room full of dead mooks) You clearly do, too!

Off with His Head!: Kung Fury kicks off a Nazi mook's head, and tears another out with his bare hands.

Offscreen Moment of Awesome: Kung Fury's fight with the Arcade Machine skips between scenes (by means of poor VHS recording-style futzing out) to increasingly ridiculous locales, eventually ending with them in space.

Offscreen Teleportation: Triceracop suddenly appears in Da Chief's office when called for, even though he wasn't there a moment ago. In a rare moment for this movie, a rational explanation is hinted at — the door to the Chief's office is right behind Kung Fury, and the sound of a door opening can be heard while the camera faces away from Kung Fury to allow Triceracop's 'teleportation'.

Oh, Crap!: Hackerman lets out an "Oh no!" when the attempt to hack Kung Fury back in time to Nazi Germany goes wrong.

Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: Almost all of the dialogue in the film features heavy ADR to cover up the Swedish actors' natural inflections; naturally, this just makes it even cheesier. Per-Henrik Arvidius as the Chief and Leopold Nilsson as Hackerman, in particular, seem to be Not Even Bothering with the Accent.

Rapid-Fire Typing: Hackerman prepping Kung Fury's time travel. At one point his fingers are actually just drumming across the home row and the following screenshot does in fact show home row gibberish.

Stable Time Loop: When Hitler murdered half of Kung Fury's precinct in 1985, Kung Fury decided to go back to the 1940s to kill him first. That battle ended with Hitler being struck by Thor's hammer, which knocked him into a time portal that transported him to 1985, which is why he was able to attack the precinct in the first place.

Stupid Jetpack Hitler: Parodied. In this movie, the Nazis experiment with genetic engineering and bipedal mecha not to gain straight-up military advantage, but to gain insight into the art of kung-fu. The entirety of Nazi Germany also seems to have been transformed into a giant factory hangar, and every single soldier (except for the two guards outside) is wearing a gas mask.

Stylistic Suck: The fight between Kung Fury and the arcade deathbot skips scenes because of "bad VHS quality". Anyone who remembers VHS tapes will recognize that horrid static anywhere. Can also count towards the intentionally bland acting.

Techno Babble: Hackerman's description how he can send Kung Fury back in time.

Hackerman: Wait a minute. Using an RX modulator, I might be able to conduct a mainframe cell layer and hack the uplink to the download. Kung Fury: What the hell does that mean? Hackerman: It means that with the right computer algorithms, I can hack you back in time. Just like a time machine.

Technology Porn: Hackerman has desks full of computers and related equipment, which are also shown in a montage. Later in the film, there is a parody telephone commercial describing the features of the phone. Of course, these can count as parody, because most of this technology has become obsolete.

Wimp Fight: The T-rex and robot eagle flailing their tiny limbs at each other.

World of Badass: Street gangsters able to catapult a police cruiser dozens of feet through the air, living arcade cabinets with laser guns, viking babes with uzis and miniguns riding on dinosaurs, velociraptors with eye lasers, Kung Fu Hitler, a badass kung fu cop, and of course David Hasselhoff.

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